Reply To: Greenstuff World Vs Sword N Steele

[warzanKeymaster 31125xp 3]

I don’t know the ins and outs of this case. But a couple of times a year we get caught in the middle of disputes and potential disputes between companies, its rarely anything malicious by the companies involved and we tend to try and quietly work in the background to put them in touch to see if they can get it resolved.

The reason we take a light touch with this kind of thing is that small companies get it hard with IP law as it’s an expensive thing to navigate.

GW cost us a fair bit when we had to get representation for the spate of letters we recieved (and to be fair to GSW and others we never recieved even an acknowledgement of them being withdrawn never mind an apology lol – but again that’s legal folk for you)

In this case its trademark law we seem to be discussing (others are copyright and design rights etc)

Trademarks are expensive for small companies and their legal eagles will have put the fear of god into them on how important enforcement of your trade mark is or you stand to lose it and all you have invested in creating it.

These folk are not wielding hammers etc they dont have much choice in the tools they use so everything seems heavy handed.

It’s a shame for all involved for sure. But not uncommon.